The moon is younger than we thought according to data form the Rosetta spacecraft that shows…
Author: New Scientist - Space
The hottest planet yet is twice Jupiter’s size and hot as a star
An exoplanet discovered orbiting a massive, scorching star 650 light years away is so hot that…
NASA is right to pay homage to the living for the first time
Naming a solar probe after astrophysicist Eugene Parker breaks the space agency’s tradition of only honouring…
Mass of a white dwarf star directly measured for the first time
Einstein said it couldn’t be done, but astrophysicists have used his prediction that gravity bends light…
Mass of a white dwarf star directly measured for the first time
Einstein said it couldn’t be done, but astrophysicists have used his prediction that gravity bends light…
The Higgs bang: The particle that blew up the universe
It gives everything mass, and now some people think the Higgs boson sparked the stupendous split-second…
General relativity passes test at Milky Way’s central black hole
Stars orbiting the supermassive black hole have been used to test Einstein’s famous theory for the…
The dreams our stuff is made of
Ahead of our Dreamers’ Club discussion at London's Barbican centre on 29 June, author Simon Ings…
The dreams our stuff is made of
Ahead of our Dreamers’ Club discussion at London's Barbican centre on 29 June, author Simon Ings…
SpaceX launches first reused Dragon capsule full of research
The recycled capsule contained the first Chinese experiment to join the US side of the International…